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 | "He that lives to live forever, never fears dying." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit." | |
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Found in the topic Popular.
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| "Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the
arguments of its opposers." | |
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Found in the topic Temper.
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| "To be innocent is to be not guilty; But to be virtuous is to
overcome our evil inclinations." | |
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Found in the topic Innocent.
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| "Governments, like docks, go from the motion men give them, and as
governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined also.
Therefore governments depend upon men rather then men upon
governments." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil,
that good may come of it. We are too ready to retaliate, rather than
forgive or gain by love and information. Force may subdue, but love gains.
And one that forgives first wins the laurel." | |
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Found in the topic Evil.
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| "Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients
that they know not how to live with the moderns." | |
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Found in the topic Past.
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| "Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise
man." | |
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Found in the topic Judgment.
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| "Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit
down without one." | |
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Found in the topic Humor.
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| "Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs
than of their children." | |
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Found in the topic Children.
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| "Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be
obey?d." | |
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Found in the topic Authority.
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| "We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and
occasion." | |
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Found in the topic God.
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| "Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants." | |
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Found in the topic Government.
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| "Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his
reason." | |
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Found in the topic Passion.
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| "The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious
men of the blasts of fortune." | |
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Found in the topic Ambition.
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| "No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross,
no crown." | |
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Found in the topic Flower.
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